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Distracted Noise Pop: Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt ducks the dog to chat longer

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2008-02-22 00:42:01 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...Stephin Merritt - what a chatterbox. Read the rest of his interview here SFBG: I made the mistake of listening to the new album on some laptop speakers, so when I plugged in a nice pair of headphones, it was nice to hear all the layers underneath the distortion Stephin Merritt: Im curious to hear about people who hear it for the first time...
 
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A Velcro Shoe Inspired by Stephin Merritt & More Filed Under Bleu

2008-09-19 18:54:00 by trill42 in Kofi's hat
 
...Stephin" was designed "en hommage" to Stephin Merritt by the French shoe firm Bluedy. The shoes are available in brown or black, with laces or velcro. Each pair comes with a travel bag and 2 pairs of laces (although why you would need them for the velcro shoes is unclear, so perhaps you don't really get laces with those.) There are Bluedy...
 
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Stephin Merritt Is Pyscho For Psychocandy

2008-01-07 11:09:10 by Stereogum in stereogum
 
...Stephin Merritt likes the Jesus & Mary Chain and their rainy feedback. Listen no further than the a-clang backdrop of " Too Drunk To Dream ," though a better example would be "Please Stop Dancing." True, the white noise smears frostily across Distortion (even the girl group garage of " Three-Way " gets a dollop), but we didn't realize the...
 
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Stephin Merritt Goes Backstage With Other Music

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2008-07-29 17:55:01 by Stereogum in stereogum
...Stephin Merritt's handwritten lyrics for the "list song" -- it offers an archival feeling, in turn making the song feel like some sort of personal manuscript/notation. Fittingly, the spare recording allows us to listen to those words more closely than on the original. Merritt also talks about his bouzouki, which is more the kind of thing...
 
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Video: Stephin Merritt: The Nuns Litany / This Little Ukulele (Live on Backstage With Other Music)

2008-07-29 17:07:59 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...Stephin Merritt s latest album as the Magnetic Fields, 2008s Distortion , had something to do with wait, itll come to me distortion. Merritts greatest gifts are as a songwriter, though, so its no surprise that album standout The Nuns Litany sounds just as good stripped bare . (Thats how the nun would want it, anyway.) New Yorks Other Music...
 
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stephin merritt plays the nuns litany backstage at other music and a question.

2008-07-30 11:48:09 by Douglas Martin in Fresh Cherries from Yakima: They Can't Hold Piss
 
...stephin merritt, being racist (of course, brought up by sasha frere-jones, the same man who brought you the hit single, indie-rock is too white , and a man seemingly vying for the position of white spokesperson of indie black america), i have a question that i will leave to my fair readers (of course, after you watch this pretty great...
 
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The Magnetic Fields at Town Hall

2008-02-27 02:34:08 by TBoom of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
 
...Stephin Merritt on a ukulele-like instrument, Sam Davol on cello, John Woo on acoustic guitar and Claudia Gonson on piano with Merritt, Gonson and Shirley Simms sharing the role of lead vocals. They started with the song California Girls from their current album, Distortion, and ironically this as well as all songs that were played from the...
 
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The Magnetic Fields "Distortion"

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2008-01-13 22:05:00 by Sonic Process in Sonic Process
...Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a full-on examination of the past And the past, in this case, is dominated by one band...
 
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion

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2008-01-29 23:53:29 by Spencer Owen of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
...Stephin Merritt has ever put this project name, or any of his names. "Three-Way" is also the only song on the tracklist that doesn't offend me; it is an instrumental, and has a sort of decent joke-surf-rock idea behind it. To go on at lengths about Distortion would be for me to merely quote lyrics from songs that I find particularly...
 
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